Cannot defrag my HD under Win2k...

[Kamox]

Hello,
I use win2k Pro and have a 40GB NTFS-formatted hard disk with 16 kbyte
clusters.
The built-in-os defrag utility doesn't work, neither do the trial
versions of O&O Defrag V6.5 Pro and Diskeeper 9.
It seems that the cluster size is the problem. How can I manage to
defragment my hard disk (without having to format it, i mean ;-))?

Thanks for your advices,

Kamox

 

[Al Dykes]

Hello,
I use win2k Pro and have a 40GB NTFS-formatted hard disk with 16 kbyte
clusters.
The built-in-os defrag utility doesn't work, neither do the trial
versions of O&O Defrag V6.5 Pro and Diskeeper 9.
It seems that the cluster size is the problem. How can I manage to
defragment my hard disk (without having to format it, i mean ;-))?

Thanks for your advices,

Kamox

If Raxco perfectdisk can't defrag it, nobody can. If
it can't I'd like to understand why.

(just a satisfied customer.)

 

[Kamox]

If Raxco perfectdisk can't defrag it, nobody can. If

it can't I'd like to understand why.

It can't!!!
Here's a screenshot:
http://www.geocities.com/kamox/Defrag-error.gif

Help! That's the same error message i got with the other applications!

 

[Mike Tomlinson]

I use win2k Pro and have a 40GB NTFS-formatted hard disk with 16 kbyte
clusters.

You've converted this drive from FAT32 to NTFS and CONVERT.EXE has
retained the 16k clusters.

It seems that the cluster size is the problem. How can I manage to
defragment my hard disk (without having to format it, i mean ;-))?

Partition Magic will resize the clusters without losing data. Take a
backup first if your data is important, and expect the first defrag
after the resizing to take a very long time.

 

[Eric Gisin]

The 4KB NTFS limit is part of Win2K. You need to install Win XP or 2003 trial
to another partition to defrag.